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The International Children's Digital Library has children's picture books written in English and other languages. The content of the books seems to have an emphasis on fairy tales, folklore, and diverse cultures. From their mission statement, "to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community - children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online."

Virtual Field Trips is a website that takes teachers and students on field trips via the internet. Categories are Career Technical, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Library media, Professional Development, Science, Social Studies, Technology and Other. As I searched around it looked like several of the field trips use our Sea Monkey as their web site composer of choice. Uen.org is the URL. At the bottom of the page we can click on "contact us" which takes us to a page where we can put in our contact information so they can get back to us. There is an 800 number to call. The website is based in Utah. Uen stands for Utah Education Network partnered with Utah State Office of Education and Higher Ed Utah, which is in Salt Lake City.

this website can be used for alphabet recognition and sight word recognition

great primary language arts site for early readers.

primary interactive language arts site for students.

An books are online and read by different actors and actresses. The students can read along or just listen to the stories. The story's picture are in some motion so the students are kept engaged.

Primary language arts site. with interactive stories for kids.

This article is an excellent resource for students as they cover specific books in class. This site offers chapter summaries and character descriptions to help students understand information from the text. There are also quizzes to assist students in studying for tests. This site is an especially useful resource in studying the works of Shakespeare, as it offers modern-day language translations.

This site is a great resource designed to assist teachers in teaching language arts. It provides a variety of resources from teaching comprehension, poetry to providing author studies. One of my favorite components of the site is the extensive selection of printable Readers Theatre. The author of the site even has a blog!

University of Iowa has a great section on phonetics (you may also select English or German) which includes animated graphics that show what your mouth should be doing for each sound. Also has short video of a native speaker pronouncing each letter of the alphabet and using it in words. Excellent tool for foreign language teachers.

don Quijote is a company that has been around since the 1980s and is most widely known for their language immersion schools in Spain and Latin America. Their website contains a lot of valuable information about Spanish teaching and learning, including this page on culture.

Nonverbal, no written instructions, highly engrossing for young children, but with applications at many levels. Explore alphabets (4 languages), numbers, art, music, plus. Recently added a user guide for educators & parents who don't want to just explore.

This website contains interactive activities where students can explore math, science, language, history and arts.

This website offers vocabulary quizzes, crossword puzzles and grammar exercises that cater to ESL students. Students also have the option to take quizzes in their native language, which is a great way to help them build their English speaking skills.

This site was created for English and Language Arts teachers, but can be applied to any content area. This offers templates and examples of different writing activities for students to do as well as professional development opportunities for educators.

Great site for learning Geography! Physical and Political quizzes for each continent as well as plenty of games to choose from. The site also has a Russian language tutorial.

this site can be used to learn about the various Native American tribes in the world.